[...]iconfinder had left my local machine and had started to download the addresses of all the jpg's on my server. This is why the program appeared to hang.

This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.[...]

Whoa, that wasn't planned!
But it can be useful actually, because IconFinder is flexible enough to search for...wallpapers or photos, for instance.

Fixes & additions in version 1.1:
- from the above issue - added appropriate checkbox in settings; user can choose if any encountered mount point should be included or not (default = not).
- deleted '/etc' path in default settings - icons were never there anyway...
- ".desktop" file rectified again, this time to "Category=X-Graphic-Viewer;Graphics"; the menu entry will be only in Graphic submenu (no longer in Utility) and it's still compatible with Precise (in fact, from there I took the first part of that category name).
- "multiple instances prevention" fixed at last (hopefully).
- Added few checkboxes in settings to get control on filetypes of searched pictures.

I was playing with Fatdog for a while and noticed that IconFinder doesn't work there due to different yaf-splash syntax.
It was a good excuse to replace it entirely with Xdialog and do some other fixes.

Version 1.2 changelog:
- yaf-splash replaced with Xdialog
- progress bar while filtering images (at last one can see "are we there yet?")
- scanning of .svg files is much faster now
- Akita has no 'exiv2', but has 'feh', so .JPGs and .TIFs will be recognized using 'feh' in this Puppy
- added .pnm format
- some internal improvements

I switched to Slacko-5.4 and using Gtkdialog-0.8.2 I was able to display max. ~6000 icons, not ~9000 as it was with Gtkdialog-0.8.0...

I decided to resolve this issue once and for all. I followed RSH's advice and I applied "Tabs".
Number of icons per one tab is set to 1024 (can be amended in Settings; min. 256).
Switching between tabs, with this amount of icons/tab, takes 2-3 seconds, what is quite acceptable IMHO.

Note: There can be problems with menu entry in latest Puppies due to recent changes in petget/woof.
For now I'm not going to do anything with this until the whole situation will be stabilized.
If menu entry won't appear, one can try:
- fixmenus
- launch IconFinder from the terminal (via iconfinder)
- or make a shortcut on the pinboard

Version 1.3 was tested only on Slacko-5.4.
First post updated.

EDIT: I changed the default number of icons/tab from 1024 to 1000...I'm thinking too much in binary.

However I could not drag the icon to another filer or window to use that icon . I had to reach for paper to write down its location as I was not able to copy its location any way I could find

Writing it down is slow laborious and inaccurate I find

Any way to copy its location? or better be able to drag it as a link?_________________Neither my Family nor my Property are Government issues. Governments should do what they were designed to do Manage the larger issues best done by Governments
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What happens when you click an icon?
Such an action should open ROX-Filer window and the icon (its file, actually) you've chosen should blink several times to reveal its exact location.

BTW, if you have thumbnails preview enabled, it may takes some time to refresh all icons in newly opened Filer window (and therefore it's hard to notice that blinking), but it always acts better on the second try, when thumbnails are already cached.

Aha click on the icon and i can then drag from the location -Thanks
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Hi again - I'll stop pestering you after this.
I just went looking for an icon in a file /arduino-1.0.3/ that I knew was there because I could not see it on the prepared list. So I changed the directory that it searched in and it found some but not the one I wanted which was an Arduino .png and tried pointing directly at it but it still did not find it

I attach a screen shot here
Is there a particular reason it did not find it or is it something I have not done properly?_________________Neither my Family nor my Property are Government issues. Governments should do what they were designed to do Manage the larger issues best done by Governments
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Yep - changed size to 200 x 200 and down she came_________________Neither my Family nor my Property are Government issues. Governments should do what they were designed to do Manage the larger issues best done by Governments
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